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That is where Wilder turns up this time, in the guise of his title character, 29-year-old Theophilus North. Like Wilder, the young North (who remembers his stories in extreme old age) is an escapee from a boyhood variously spent in China, California and Wisconsin, a classics scholar, a master of many languages, an ex-prep schoolteacher and Yaleman. He is also an infernal meddler in other people's business, more or less in the spirit (much diminished) of Jesus, Socrates and George Brush, Wilder's insufferably virtuous hero in Heaven 's My Destination...
Norton, who has been active in Scouting for 18 years, was honored for "distinguished service to boyhood" at the annual meeting of the BSA's Northeast Region. The Silver Antelope Award was presented on behalf of the 1.5 million youth and adult Scouting members in the Northeast Region...
...Baltimore Orioles' Chuck Thompson was the radio phantom of my boyhood, and even Chuck would delay his account sometimes. In the hiatus between crack of bat and disappearing home run, Chuck was ruminating. Only when he was ready would he ejaculate, "Go to war, Miss Agnes." (While my point is correct, this is an exaggeration. Thompson reserved that homespun judgement for only the most momentous occasions, like back-to-back homeruns by the Robinson boys...
...already films within the film: the Renoirs and Vigos which Truffaut himself had seen many times. And the most effective scenes in his latest film, Day for Night, are a series of dreams in which a director, played by Truffaut, returns from the bright present to black and white boyhood. He repeatedly tries to steal a set of advertising stills of Citizen Kane through the barred front of a theater lobby, and finally grasping his prize, turns and runs off into the night. It is a scene you applaud...
...clear-channel New Orleans radio station at 870 on the dial, they can hear not only country music but business information that could be vital. Two years ago, Disc Jockey Douglas-who has never driven a truck, but was fascinated by the big rigs that rolled through his boyhood home of Ludowici, Ga. -sold WWL on an all-night program beamed specifically at truckers. His show, Charlie Douglas and the Road Gang, has won the loyalty of both listeners and advertisers by operating as a truckers' call board...